Your Basic Pay is established by grade and pay date, and is updated based on rate change, grade change, longevity, and correction or change of paydays. Basic Pay reflects all service creditable toward longevity.
For most members who enter and serve on active duty without a break in service, the basic pay date is the date they enter active or inactive service. If, however, there is a break in service, the time between periods of service usually is not included. However, there are statutory periods when service in a particular component may not be counted.
Conversely, there are periods for which some members are given constructive service, even though they were not actually serving on active or inactive duty. The servicing personnel office is responsible for providing the basic pay date, total active federal military service date, total commissioned federal military service date, and a variety of other dates, depending on the nature of the individual member’s service.
To view the pay charts, please click on the following links:
